The next couple days in Ayutthaya:

Feeling the necessity to get out of the room I stayed the first couple nights in, I relocated to a more homey-feeling place called the P.U. Inn. To Save some money and get myself off of western comforts, I declined the room with A/C. As a result, it was 85 degrees in my room when I was trying to sleep. Luckily, they give you 2 fans--I would have died without!

The other day I purchased a boat tour through my guesthouse which circles the island and stops at various Wat's along the water. Here's a few pictures:



Holy cow lots of fishes in the river!




Wat Chaiwattanaram. The boat stopped here for about 15 minutes (not nearly long enough to actually see the whole thing, clearly, but i still got some cool pics)




If you didn't know, Buddha is BIG here. There are temples ALL over the place, and they are all quite impressive. This is one of the. It's hard to see, but the King of Thailand is sitting in the middle of the 3 statues.




I have no idea why there is an army of roosters...




St. Joseph's Catholic Church. The first Christian church I've seen yet!



The night market where I ate after the boat ride.

Funny story, as I was eating a guy comes up to the table and tells me how much I owe for the meal. I don't understand him, so I take out a couple bills and hand them to him. Not sure if that was enough, I pull out another as he starts to walk away. He stops and takes it too. Alarms go off... I turn around to see him leaving the scene and a group of about 4-5 Thai guys (who work there I think) laughing. I grab my stuff and pursue the guy. He stops and turns around when I get to him and he is surprisingly submissive (like an "aww I got caught" attitude... maybe because I'm about 1.5 feet taller than him? haha), but he doesn't want to give the money back. The guy I bought food from saw what happened I guess and came over and helped coerce the guy into giving my money back. He tried at first to give part, but that naturally didn't fly.

That was the highlight of that day :)




This was taken on the way into Bangkok from Ayutthaya. People will set up these little shacks anywhere! I don't know I they have to pay anything for the land or what...




Checkers is big here. I chilled for awhile with these guys waiting for my train.




Inner city Bangkok.




More Bangkok!




Siam Square Shopping Center... one of many in the area that I visited.


Well, that's it for now. As always, there are more pictures than these located within the links found on the right of this screen.